We Heart Music

Fall Out Boy

Tuesday, 22 May 2012

We ♥ Matt Pinfield. With over 25 years of experience as a radio DJ, television VJ, Pinfield is truly "The Rock and Roll Encyclopedia".

Pinfield is part of Skype's "Join Say it with Skype" upcoming competition to be the Skype house band. This is a great opportunity for young musicians to showcase their music and win a professional studio recording. Judges (and later mentors) will include Matt Pinfield, Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) and Ryan Tedder (OneRepublic).

Here's how it works:

• Using a laptop or computer with a webcam, log into Facebook
• Add the Join Say It With Skype app • Find the "submit a URL of your band" and hit "record a live performance"
• The next step is to just rock out.

IMPORTANT: Bands can submit their entries on the Skype Facebook page until Thursday, June 14 at 11:59 P.M. EST. Winners will be selected and notified on Tuesday, June 19 via email and will be announced publicly on Monday, July 9 at 9:00 A.M. EST.

Besides from "Say it with Skype", Pinfield also talk a little about Dave Kendall and 120 Minutes, how he consume his music (he has a record player in his kitchen).

Song of the show is Gaslight Anthem's "45", which is Matt Pinfield's favorite song at the moment.

Keep up with Matt Pinfield on twitter, he's currently started MTV's The Hivecast with Matt Pinfield (they're on episode #1 with Mark Ronson), he's on "terrestrial radio" with Cumulus Media-produced "Flashback" show (which is carried by 200 stations, including 92 KQRS), and is working on a book.

BONUS:
• Matt's hilarious Prince story, plus Bob Mould.

• I should also mention that I use the standard Skype phone and computer application all the time, but not so much the Facebook's "Say It With Skype" app. As part of the research, I did check it out by sending a birthday greeting with our favorite Ash band. It's really cool, I even got to put in my own text in the message:

2015:
Since Select Magazine went away in 2000, Uncut Magazine took over as my favorite music magazine. In their latest issue, which came out in the stores in the UK this week (January 27th), they featured the 30th Anniversary of Meat is Murder with a The Smiths cover.